A judge has paid tribute to the dignity with which the family of a man who died following an industrial accident have conducted themselves.

Nylacast Limited, of Thurmaston Boulevard, Leicester was fined £293,000 after 52-year-old Tarsem Singh, of Oadby, died from a heart attack in hospital the day after sustaining injuries while removing a plastic rod from a casting machine.

The company, which manufactures plastics products for the construction and offshore industries, was also ordered to pay more than £10,000 in costs.

Mr Singh died on April 16, 2016, after what the sentencing judge called “an accident waiting to happen”.

Tarsem Singh, 52, who died after the accident at Nylacast Ltd (Image: Supplied picture)

The company was sentenced in a hearing at Northampton Magistrates' Court today after pleading guilty to two safety breaches at a hearing in a Leicester court in July.

In his opening remarks District Judge Tim Daber said:”On behalf of all parties I would like to pay tribute to the quiet dignity with which the family of Tarsem Singh have conducted themselves throughout these proceedings.”

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“No-one can now answer for Mr Singh, but it is entirely within the range of possibilities that this was a momentary loss of concentration of the kind which is apt to happen when operatives follow repetitive steps."

The Nylacast factory, in Thurmaston Boulevard where Mr Singh suffered the injuries, in April, 2016, which led to his death the next day (Image: Mike Sewell)

He added: “While there are two offences, they are effectively different facets of the same wrongdoing and, accordingly it would be wrong to punish the company twice.